Park Sang-Hee

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The Honourable
Park Sang-Hee
박상희
朴常喜
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Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor
Assumed office
11 October 2024
Preceded byNikolai Olanovich Semenov
Leader of the Opposition
In office
12 April 2022 – 11 October 2024
Prime MinisterNikolai Olanovich Semenov
Preceded byLucy Kobayashi
Succeeded byNikolai Olanovich Semenov
Leader of the Gandoor Communist Party
Assumed office
12 April 2022
PresidentNikolai Petrov
Preceded byLucy Kobayashi
Member of the Forum
from Freena's Sixth District
In office
14 October 2016 – 11 October 2024
Serving with James Dunstan and Alexandria Peters
Preceded byKenneth Ipsli
Succeeded byVic Winters
Member of the House of Freena
In office
8 October 2010 – 14 October 2016
Preceded byKonstantin Kiselev
Succeeded byNataliya Kuznetsova
Personal details
BornPark Sang-Hee
14 May 1984 (aged 44)
Jamestown, Osaka Yon, Gandoor
Political partyGandoor Communist Party
Spouse(s)Park Hye-Su (m. 2012)
ParentsPark Kyung-Sam (father)
Park Hyun-Jae (mother)
RelativesPark Eun-Mi (sister)
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBak Sanghui
McCune–ReischauerPak Sanghŭi

Park Sang-Hee[a] (Korean: 박상희; Hanja: 朴常喜; born 14 May 1984) is a Gandoorese politician serving as 13th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor since 2024 and as Leader of the Gandoor Communist Party since 2022. Park was first elected as a Member of the Forum representing the Sixth District of Freena Yon in 2016 alongside James Dunstan, a fellow member of the Gandoor Communist Party, and Alexandria Peters, a member of the New Democratic Party. Ideologically, Park identifies as a democratic socialist.

Park was appointed to the office of Prime Minister on 11 October 2024 following her party's victory in the 2024 National and Forum Election on 6 July 2024.

Born in Jamestown, Osaka Yon to Korean parents who immigrated to Gandoor in the early 1970s, Park and her family moved to Lewanyu, Freena Yon when she was only three years old. She graduated from Nzardgrad University with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2008.

Having been open about her sexuality since she was a teenager, she married her long-time girlfriend Kang Hye-Su in 2012, making her Gandoor's third Prime Minister to be part of the LGBT community (after Robert S. Stevenson, who was bisexual, and Akane Sasaki, who was lesbian) and the second Prime Minister to be married to someone of the same sex while in office (after Akane Sasaki, who married her girlfriend of eight years, Natsuko Hirata, in 2002).

Park is the first Gandoorese Prime Minister to be of Korean ancestry.

Early life

Park Sang-Hee was born at Jamestown Central Hospital in Jamestown, Osaka Yon on 14 May 1984. Her mother and father, Park Hyun-Jae and Park Kyung-Sam, immigrated to Gandoor from Gyeongsan, South Korea in 1972. She moved to Lewanyu, Freena Yon with her family in 1987 at the age of three.

Park learned how to speak multiple languages growing up, recounting how her parents taught her their native Korean, her schooling was almost entirely in English, and she took Russian lessons after school until the evening. She has admitted that she disliked the Russian lessons because her parents only spoke Korean and English, but later came to appreciate them when she learned in school that only about 40% of the population of Lewanyu could speak English and the majority of people living in her hometown only spoke Russian.

In 1989, her younger sister, Park Eun-Mi was born.

Park attended Lewanyu Secondary School, graduating in 2004. She served in student government during all five years of her secondary education, with Park having stated that her experience in student government is what led to her to want to have a career in politics. In addition to student government, she helped establish a Korean Language Club for students interested in the Korean language and was a member of the Science and Mathematics Club. As a member of the Science and Mathematics Club, she finished in 1st place in the 2002 Freena Yon Science Fair, allowing her to participate in the 2002 National Secondary School Science Fair alongside the 1st place winners from the other seven yons. She would come in 4th place in the 2002 National Secondary School Science Fair, being awarded a prize of 500 GDY.

After graduating from Lewanyu Secondary School, Park moved to Nzardgrad, the capital of Freena Yon, where she attended Nzardgrad University from 2004 until 2008, graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science. While attending university, she met and began dating Kang Hye-Su in 2005.

Early career

Park worked at Ichiban Burger as a cashier during her secondary school years and, while attending university, worked as a photographer for the student newspaper and as a waitress at a local restaurant. After graduating, she would get a job as a secretary, working for the Nzardgrad City Council, where she would eventually become the assistant secretary to the Mayor of Nzardgrad in 2009.

House of Freena

Elections

2010

Personal Life

Park Sang-Hee has been married to her wife Park (née Kang) Hye-Su since 2012, with the two of them having been in a relationship since 2005. Park Hye-Su currently works as an accountant for Tescorp Systems.

Her younger sister, Park Eun-Mi, is a secondary school teacher and works at Lewanyu Secondary School, the same school she and her sister attended in Freena Yon.

Park speaks English, Korean, and Russian fluently and is conversational in Japanese.

Notes

  1. In this Korean name, the family name is Park.